My Great Desire-Free Verse Poem by Joseph Anderson

My Great Desire-Free Verse

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How I yearn to write in free verse,
Free from rhymn, cadence and
Free to roam about ethereally,
In some never-never land.

The muse of Erato is upon me. I have an urge,
an urge to write with vagueness and abstraction,
to cloak my meanings in surrealism and mystery.
Perhaps, I could write of passion, joy, sadness,
despair, longings, angers, envies and doubts. I
could write of depressions and elations, using
platitudes and beatitudes. I must write of sad
yesterdays and hope-filled tomorrows and tell
of my misty dreams and future schemes. Ah! -
Yes, these would be good topics, free from the
shackles of rhyme. My sucess depends on your
ability to interpret what I have written. I may yet
become the Picasso of poetry.

But when I take my pen in hand
To write new poetry,
It still comes out in rhythmic form,
Dear Lord, please set me free!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Valsa George 27 August 2019

After so many months, I felt an urge to look into your poems. On scanning through your pages, I found this poem titled My Great Desire! I was curious to know what that desire was! Yes, we all love to liberate our thoughts in free verse set free of all shackles of rhythm and metre! But those who admired the legacy of traditional poets have an inherent love for rhyming verse and we tend to write rhyming verse!

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Danny Draper 18 August 2012

Joseph, Sir, I looked through your anthology here and chose this as the first poem of yours to read. A fine write indeed with the bulk of witty and informative observations in the second verse with the first and third stanzas measures and formed like a pair of bookends or guards to contain the bulk load of prose in the center or a block of uncared potential just waiting like a vocabulary seeking order. Yet, there was perfect order and measured flow to this unhewn mass. Beautiful content and form.

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Walterrean Salley 16 May 2012

This is grand. Well crafted. And judging by what you’ve done here, I truly believe that you can do free verse. Joseph, as time permits, would you read my poem, “Common Addiction Among Poets”? Thanks.

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